The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 128
... watch made , and coming forth of the hands of a watch - maker ; we , in all time coming , can , on seeing the watch only , infer the watch - maker . But this full experience comprehensive of both terms is wanting , it is alleged , in ...
... watch made , and coming forth of the hands of a watch - maker ; we , in all time coming , can , on seeing the watch only , infer the watch - maker . But this full experience comprehensive of both terms is wanting , it is alleged , in ...
Page 144
... watch- maker . But in this said watch there are a thou- sand collateral things which , rightly speaking , form no part of the essential consequent — though alto- gether they go to a composition different perhaps , in some respects ...
... watch- maker . But in this said watch there are a thou- sand collateral things which , rightly speaking , form no part of the essential consequent — though alto- gether they go to a composition different perhaps , in some respects ...
Page 152
... watch before our eyes , we see the manifest adaptation of means to an end ; and this we have frequently before ... watch produced by the whole antecedent named a watch- maker - but we have seen daily and familiarly that which is in the ...
... watch before our eyes , we see the manifest adaptation of means to an end ; and this we have frequently before ... watch produced by the whole antecedent named a watch- maker - but we have seen daily and familiarly that which is in the ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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